Google launched its latest sustainability tool, a series of environmental geospatial APIs that help cities, businesses, and other partners map solar, air quality, and pollen data worldwide.

The changes will make it more difficult for people to make custom maps using Google's software, but it doesn't appear likely to mean much to state and local government.

Google Maps Platform promises streamlined API products, a simplified customer experience, a single pricing plan with pay-as-you-go billing, free support, a single console, and new industry ...

A globetrotting Mario game that features your block? A SimCity playing out in your hometown? GoogleMaps' new API makes it possible.

Overture Maps was originally announced in late 2022, with Google’s biggest competitors on board. Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, TomTom and more mapping specialists have teamed up to create the project.

Using the Google Cloud Platform, developers can start a Google Cloud Project and download relevant software to use Google Maps APIs.

With all the hullabaloo around Apple’s efforts in the mapping realm, Google got a nice little free PR kickback for the quality of its own Maps offering. Even the most cynical of anti-Googlers ...

The Maps apps war between Google, Apple and Nokia continues as Google makes its maps even more user-friendly on Android mobile devices.

Google touts that its new Maps Engine API can be used for virtually any kind of application, with business use cases ranging from healthcare to retail.

Google has significantly reduced API prices for Indian developers, aiming to make location-based solutions more affordable. This initiative is part of Google's strategy to support India's ...